Notícies
High frequency neurons determine effective connectivity in neural networks
Jan. 15, 2018
Understanding how information is routed and processed in the brain is essential to understand its operation. However, this is not an easy task: the brain is a extremely complex network containing billions of neurons, each with its own connections. In …
It's not quantum mechanics that's weird - it's us
Nov. 20, 2017
Quantum theory is famously mind-boggling. But do its paradoxes mean we haven’t yet understood it?Quantum mechanics is so notoriously difficult that Nobel-winning physicist Richard Feynman cheerfully admitted that even he didn’t understand it.The reason is not that quantum theory is …
Complex Pints
Nov. 8, 2017
On October 7, students enrolled at the the Master in Complex Systems, official degree taught by IFISC, organized the outreach event Complex Pints at Cafè Teatre Tertúlia. As part of the “Introduction to Complex Systems” subject the students had the …
IFISC participated in the II Fira de la Ciència i la Tecnologia d'Inca
Oct. 31, 2017
Members of IFISC (Claudio R. Mirasso, Cristian Estarellas, Marcos Galletero and Adrián García) participated in the II Fira de la Ciència i la Tecnologia d’Inca (October 28-30). Both seniors and children were able to visit the IFISC stand in order …
PhD Thesis: Spin and charge transport in thermally and AC driven nanodevices
Oct. 19, 2017
We are proud to congratulate Maria Isabel Alomar on the recent successful defense of her thesis work, "Spin and charge transport in thermally and AC driven nanodevices", supervised by David Sánchez.Her thesis, defended on Monday 9th October, deals with spintronic …
Reversal of thermoelectric current in tubular nanowires
Sept. 4, 2017
An international team of researchers, including an IFISC (CSIC-UIB) member, predicts an inversed current in nanowires subjected to strong thermal gradients.The thermoelectric effect arises when the sides of a conductive material are held at different temperatures. The resulting energy difference …
A study unravels the formation of 'fairy circles' in the posidonia meadows
Aug. 17, 2017
Los llamados ‘círculos de hadas’ son claros sin vegetación de forma circular que surgen en las praderas submarinas de Posidonia oceanica del Mediterráneo, entre otros entornos. Hasta ahora se desconocía como se forman estos vacíos, pero un nuevo modelo matemático …
The Fall of the Empire: The Americanization of English
July 21, 2017
An interdisciplinary team of researchers, including physicists from IFISC (UIB-CSIC) and a UIB linguist, has mapped the global use of the British and American varieties of English analyzing the process of Americanization of this language over the last two centuries.In …
Robin Hood, from the bow to Big Data
June 30, 2017
Tal como hiciera Robin Hood luchando contra la desigualdad en la distribución de la riqueza en Nottingham armado con su arco, un estudio publicado por investigadores españoles y franceses propone un método para promover la redistribución de oportunidades económicas en …
Explorando las fronteras entre saberes X. De la biología a las ciencias sociales: Nuevos retos en el campo de los sistemas complejos
May 18, 2017
La celebración del décimo aniversario del Instituto de Física Interdisciplinar y Sistemas Complejos (IFISC, UIB-CSIC), coincide con la décima edición del ciclo Explorando las Fronteras entre Saberes que, como viene siendo habitual, es coordinado e impulsado por el IFISC y …